Tag: botanical garden

Pa. jail guard who missed killer’s escape is fired, as hunt for fugitive focuses on botanic garden

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A prison tower guard has been fired after letting a murderer slip away on his watch in a brazen daytime escape, officials said Friday, as the nine-day-old search pressed on amid southeastern Philadelphia suburbs, farmland and a vast botanical garden.

News of the firing came as the searchers’ ranks grew overnight, focusing on the area around Longwood Gardens, where the fugitive inmate has been spotted before.

Danelo Souza Cavalcante, 34, escaped while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021. Prosecutors say he wanted to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted over a killing in his home country of Brazil.

Authorities have described Cavalcante as extremely dangerous. With the search in its second week, nervous residents remain alert for any sign of him. Police believe Cavalcante has been spotted

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Prison guard who missed killer’s escape is fired, as hunt for fugitive focuses on botanic garden

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A prison tower guard has been fired after a murderer slipped away on his watch in a brazen daytime escape, officials said Friday, as the nine-day-old search pressed on amid southeastern Philadelphia suburbs, farmland and a vast botanical garden.

News of the firing came as the searchers’ ranks grew overnight, focusing on the area around Longwood Gardens, where the fugitive inmate has been spotted before.

Danelo Souza Cavalcante, 34, escaped while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021. Prosecutors say he wanted to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted over a killing in his home country of Brazil.

Authorities have described Cavalcante as extremely dangerous. With the search in its second week, nervous residents remain alert for any sign of him. Police believe Cavalcante has been spotted nine times

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Tour Bellevue’s public garden that’s inspired people for decades

Bellevue Botanical Garden has welcomed hundreds of thousands visitors – for free – for more than 30 years. #k5evening

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Bellevue Botanical Garden is the winner of Best Public Garden in 2023’s Best Northwest Escapes viewer’s poll.

For more than three decades, Bellevue Botanical Garden has been a peaceful sanctuary with lots of flower power.

Garden Director James Gagliardi said connecting with nature has a demonstrable impact on visitors.

“Walking around, enjoying the blooms, enjoying nature, it’s something that everybody needs in their life right now, so we’re glad to be able to supply it,” he said. “To stop and actually smell the flowers – that old saying is something that you should be doing! We are right in the heart of Bellevue here, but it feels like a different world.”

The 53-acre garden is run by the city and supported by nonprofits and community members. In 2022,

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The struggle to save the tropical plants of Kyiv’s Botanical Garden

KYIV, Dec 26 (Reuters) – In the lush greenhouses of Kyiv’s National Botanical Garden, staff are struggling to save a decades-old collection of tropical plants after months of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid led to electricity outages, threatening the garden’s heating supply.

“These collections cannot be restored. This is not a greenhouse with cucumbers and tomatoes… The loss of this collection would be a great national loss for Ukraine,” said Lyudmyla Buiun, responsible for tropical and subtropical plants.

“Plants cannot be told… ‘please endure, because today it is -15 degrees (Celsius).’ It is impossible,” she said, pointing out signs of cold damage on some plants.

[1/4] Liudmyla Buiun, Head of Tropical and Subtropical Plants Department, stands near a barrel with firewood for heating in a tropical greenhouse, suffering from low temperatures, in a botanical garden after critical energy infrastructure was hit by Russian military attacks in Ukraine, as Russia’s

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What’s ahead for Sonoma Botanical Garden?

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Director shares the skinny on Sonoma Botanical Garden

The program for the Thursday meeting of the Valley of the Moon Garden Club will feature a storied professional of international botanical gardens.

Sonoma Botanical Garden Executive Director Scot Medbury will share the history and emerging vision for the garden during the Jan. 5 meeting.

Formerly known as Quarryhill, Sonoma Botanical Garden recently opened a new California flora section on the 67-acre property. A new program of indoor horticultural exhibitions is also currently being held in the large greenhouse, with a current feature on citrus, “From East to Zest,” running through March 5.

Medbury, who has announced he will be leaving the post in April after three years, has been involved in curating, cultivating and interpreting the botanical collections for 40 years. He previously was director of the San Francisco Botanical Garden and the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, where he

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Country’s first botanical garden about to vanish


KARACHI:

The country’s first botanical garden, established more than a decade ago for research purposes and preservation of plants, at one of the largest universities in the country, is now in a state of ruin due to inattention and lack of funds.

Back in 2005, the Higher Education Commission (HEC), approved the addition of a botanical garden at the University of Karachi, spread over several acres, at a cost of Rs 30 million.

Two years later, in September of 2007, the project was inaugurated and its initial years were dedicated to preservation of alpine plants, medicinal plants, and halophytes; while a separate section was created for planting fruit bearing trees. Presently, the garden resembles a wild tree forest.

The Express Tribune asked the in-charge, Dr Roohi Bano, about the miserable state of the garden, to which she replied that she had only recently assumed her post but was aware of

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Missouri Botanical Garden will debut $100 million visitor center this weekend | Arts and theater




Missouri Botanical Garden set to open new visitor center

Employees of the Missouri Botanical Garden mingle in front of a video board during an open house for employees and their families at the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022.




Missouri Botanical Garden president Peter Wyse Jackson says he heard the word over and over from donors and employees at preview parties this week for the new, $100 million Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center.

“People weren’t just saying it,” said Wyse Jackson. “It was the whole sense of place. Their garden has been enhanced and strengthened, because it fits so well into the garden’s landscape.”

The garden, at 4344 Shaw Boulevard, will host the center’s grand opening ceremony for the public at 10 a.m. Saturday with free admission Saturday and Sunday, courtesy of the Pohlmann Legacy. In lieu of a traditional ribbon cutting with giant scissors, Wyse Jackson will cut a fresh greenery

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Missouri Botanical Garden will debut $100 million visitor center this weekend | Arts and theater




Missouri Botanical Garden set to open new visitor center

Employees of the Missouri Botanical Garden mingle in front of a video board during an open house for employees and their families at the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022.


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Missouri Botanical Garden president Peter Wyse Jackson says he heard the word over and over from donors and employees at preview parties this week for the new, $100 million Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center.

“People weren’t just saying it,” said Wyse Jackson. “It was the whole sense of place. Their garden has been enhanced and strengthened, because it fits so well into the garden’s landscape.”

The garden, at 4344 Shaw Boulevard, will host the center’s grand opening ceremony for the public at 10 am Saturday with free admission Saturday and Sunday, courtesy of the Pohlmann Legacy. In lieu of a traditional ribbon cutting with giant scissors, Wyse Jackson will cut a fresh greenery

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